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Murray, Michael A.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975-01)

A few years ago, during the heyday of the urban crisis,
the role of the state in urban affairs was a hot subject for
debate. After years of being ignored, state government,
the invisible partner in the federal system, ...

Gottheil, Diane Levitt; Welch, Susan(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975-04)

After providing an overview of population changes in
Illinois metropolitan areas during the 1960s, this paper
reevaluates and updates the findings of Coke from a
number of perspectives. First, using both city and ...

Day, Richard L.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975-06)

On July 1, 1971, for the first time home rule became an
option available to Illinois municipalities and counties.
The extent and ways in which home rule has been used were
among the topics studied by staff members of ...

Schoeplein, Robert N.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1976-03)

Illinois is situated both geographically and in production
at the crosscurrents of the national economy. Virtually all
U.S. industries have one or more firms with productive
facilities in Illinois, resulting in a diverse ...

Przybylski, James(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1976-08)

The old saying has it that in presidential elections "as
goes Maine, so goes the nation." While this statement may
have once been valid, over the last forty years the bellwether
nature of the state of Maine has been ...

Stonecash, Jeff(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1977-05)

As they become increasingly apparent, ditferences among
local governments in levels of expenditure are beginning to
be a prominent policy concern. To the extent that expenditure
levels reflect policy commitments and/or ...

Nardulli, Peter F.; Proch, Kathleen(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1977-09)

The effects of heavy case loads upon the operations of
criminal courts in Illinois, as well as in almost every other
state in the nation, have been the subject of much concern
for over fifty years. Indeed, much of the ...

Walzer, Norman(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1978-01)

In recent years the deteriorating condition of local roads and bridges, pointed up by bridge failures causing deaths and many injuries, has become a concern in Illinois and many other states. Serious as this problem is, ...

Walter, Oliver; Karnig, Albert(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1978-11)

Politicians often lament the declining importance of
local government in the United States. They point to
an ever-growing, more inclusive federal government
as evidence of the passing of government at the grassroots
level. ...

Nardulli, Peter F.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1979-04)

Police departments throughout the country have examined and experimented with various deployment strategies. One of the most innovative and potentially useful strategies
has been labeled team policing. According to a ...

Sokolow, Alvin D.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1979-11)

This report is a brief examination of the federal aid trend
among nonmetropolitan communities in Illinois, particularly
the grants that flow directly to small municipal
governments. It is based on a field study of the ...

Sanders, Heywood T.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1980-01)

Passage of the 1974 Housing and Community Development
Act presaged a minor revolution in intergovernmental
relations for the cities of Illinois. Under the new
Community Development Block Grant program, Title I
of the ...

Heins, A. James(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1980-03)

Until the turn of this century, almost all of the revenue of
the state as well as local governments was derived from
the property tax. Since 1900, however, the state has turned
increasingly to other forms of taxation. ...

Preston, Michael B.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1980-10)

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze
how effective the state of Illinois has been in coordinating
employment and training programs mandated under
the CETA legislation. To accomplish this task, we ...

Chicoine, David L.; Walzer, Norman(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1981-01)

This paper seeks to shed light on the role that governmental
structure plays in property tax collections, using
1977 Census of Governments data for Illinois counties.
No attempt is made to justify or critique certain ...

Giertz, J. Fred(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1981-05)

Property tax has been the major source of revenue for
local governments in the United States from the beginning,
and it remains so today in both the nation and in Illinois
Despite its longevity, it is still a controversial ...

Begley, Charles E.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1982-01)

In the present political climate, reform or elimination
of the certificate of need program is a distinct possibility.
At the national level, the deregulatory movement has led
to attacks on the program by officials in ...

Nardulli, Peter F.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983-04)

After a brief lull in the late seventies and early eighties, crime
is once again a prime concern among a large number of
Americans. More people are mentioning crime in periodic
surveys of public problems than in the ...

Smith, Everett G., Jr.(Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1983-07)

The 1980 census provides the latest glimpse into who lives
where in this nation and its states Changing locations of
people have prompted publicity recently about a repopulation
of the American countryside and revival ...